Improvement in flocking cloth



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

HORATIO N. SLATER, OF WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOCKING CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 17 L05 7, datedDecember 14, 1875; application filed October 5,.1875.

' State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFlocking Cloth; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described,as follows Heretofore, in combining, with cloth, flock, or very shortwool, in the process of fulling the cloth, it has been customary to putthe flock and the piece or pieces of cloth into the" fullingmillpromiscuously, the flock being made thereby to combine with the cloth inand by the process of falling the cloth, while being carried on. In thisway both surfaces of the cloth or one only has been flocked. Where butone surface has received the flock, it has been customary to firstdouble or fold the cloth along its middle, and to sew it together at itsends, as well as at its lists or selvages. This having been done thecloth was introduced into the mill, and its ends duly connected theflock also being placed in the mill, whereby it had access to theoutside surface of the cloth only, the inner surface being insulatedfrom the flock.

In carrying out my improvement I properly distribute or scatter upon thesurface to be flocked the necessary amount of the flock, after which Idouble or fold the cloth along its middle longitudinally, and sew orotherwise properly connect the edges, lists, or selvages together, so asto inclose the flock as it were within a bag or tube of the cloth. Inext pass the piece between the rolls of the fullingmill in the usualway, and connectit together at its ends by sewing or otherwise, therebyforming it into an endless bag or tube, in which the flock is confinedthen, as well as during the process of falling it. In this way it willbe perceived that the outside surface of the cloth becomes completelyinsulated from the flock.

By my improvement I attainimportant advantages, for, by it I am able notonly to accurately determine the amount of flock to be tat; ken up bythe cloth to obtain any desirable weight per yard, but to save much, ifnot all the waste of flock incident to the old process hereinbeforementioned. Furthermore, by my improvement, the flock becomes evenlydistributed over and combined with the inner surface of the cloth. v

Another mode of insulating one surface of a piece of cloth may beeffected by sewing or applying thereto another or like piece of cloth,or a water or flock proot sheet, the two being sewed or otherwiseproperly connected at their ed ges and ends.

I claim as my invention-- Theimproveinentin the artof flocking cloth,suc'h consisting in employing the flock within a bag or tube composed ofthe cloth in whole or in part, substantially as set forth, while thesaid bag or tube is being subjected to the action of the fulling-mill,as specified.

HORATIO N. SLATER.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDnY, J. It. Snow.

